Just need to breathe

Well, right now there’s a multitude of clean clothes on my bed to be folded, rain-soaked garage sale items on my porch needing to be dried off, a grease-covered Foreman on my counter, and dead ant carcasses all over my bathroom that need to be wiped up. But, the kids just went to bed and I need a moment to breathe.
*deep breath*
Today is one of those days where I’ve just been waiting all day for this moment. I hate that. I hate days in which I wish away the moments until my kids are in bed and I can sit down for 5 minutes before getting to work again with cleaning, laundry, dishes (ok, who am I kidding- my lovely husband does the dishes for me), bills, etc. But I guess we all have these days.
Things have just been building up lately- stress upon stress upon stress and I’m just about to crumble under it all. I hate talking about it ever b/c then I feel like it just brings it all to the forefront again and that’s not where I want it to be. I even hesitate to share these feelings right now just because of the risk I’m taking with opening myself up. There are certain people who may rejoice a little inside when they see that things aren’t just 100% peachy in our lives right now and that bothers me. But I guess that is between themselves and God and I shouldn’t worry about it. But it’s not a matter of wanting life to be perfect. That’s not what God has promised us. Life is hard and following Him is even harder. And we are still 1000% confident that we are where we have been called to be so that gives us peace.
So I guess I am just asking for your prayers. And to those who have been praying for us since the day we knew we were moving, we value you so much
As I was contemplating writing this, I received an forwarded email from a wise friend with a devotional from our pastor. Guess what it said?
“Psalm 30:5:b Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.”